Free and Open Source Software

Pairdop is an open source, browser based, peer to peer file sharing application.

It is cool because it can find other devices on the network. So you open up pairdrop on one computer, and you open pairdop on another, and then you can see the devices and chat with eachother.

But, you also have the options of:

• Creating a temporary public room for sharing files over the network to another device
• Permanently pairing devices so that they can access eachother after you close the app

In addition to that, it's a progressive web application, so you can "install", and/or the web page does not need internet to load, firefox will cache it and let you use the app even if you don't have internet.

There is a publicly hosted instance you can try: https://pairdrop.net/

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/52054729

Swarm simulator is an open source idle game:

https://github.com/swarmsim/swarm

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan and I am proud to announce that I now have information on how to create a multi-game-system for native games including recomps and emulators that you created or is open source on my site: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/MGSInfo.html , the reason I did this was I thought power users would like this to make your video game library more fun.

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan should I have my free and open source video games communicate with other video games, source ports and emulators that are either source available or open source for customizabilities and fun's sake, or should I let the people do that.

For Example if I do something in 1 game it will take me to another games level/area or I get an Item in that other game.

Link to my games: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

The Document Foundation argues that people should use the Open Document Format instead of OOXML that is controlled by a single company.

A few of us have put together a forum and wiki in the hopes to build a community focused on collaboration for various open source and creative commons projects. We build the platform a few months ago, but haven't done the greatest job of actually spreading the word and building up the active members, so I'm posting in another attempt to try and spread the word to establish some activity for our community.

In short, the idea behind our website is to:

1. Build a community that is based on genuine connections and collaboration. Our community is a forum and wiki, and hopes to steer towards a slower (and possibly more old school) type of internet - and away from some communities that are mostly article reposts and memes.
2. Libre/foss/creative commons/etc - we want to help generate community that can come together to work on projects that benefit everyone, and in a way, push back against some of the urges of capitalism.
3. Involvement - we want to welcome everyone, but the idea is to eventually create a culture where people are not afraid to contribute small things to many projects. We want to motivate individuals to grow the foss ecosystem without feeling like they need to commit heavily to any one project. Projects can get rekindled and improved on even if others have abandoned it.

Overall, we have a big vision for the community - but at this point we are just trying to get it off the ground and are looking for members to sign up and start some discussions to help us grow.

The goal is to create a community that is able to stand on its own, and outlast myself or any of the other admins. And essentially become a commons space, with the current admins simply acting as a steward that can be replaced if they need/want to step down. In that respect, we hope to get some members and allow the community to grow and evolve the platform to fit the needs of the community.

While modern social media has its place, we felt that the current standing of online collaborative spaces were limiting and often highly niche. We hope that maybe we can grow a space for people of various skills, backgrounds, and ideas can come together to create a creative and productive space - and make some lasting connections as well.

I know this post got a bit lengthy, and many will probably skim over it, but if it's something that sounds interesting to you I would really appreciate it if you came over and checked it out, signed up, and maybe help us get some discussions going to help us grow our community. And of course, if you would be so kind as to helping us spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated - as we spent so much time working on building the site, but none of us are all that great at actually "marketing" the community to actually find new members.

Our forum is: forum.UnfinishedProjects.net

And our wiki, where we hope people will actually build out various projects together is located at:

UnfinishedProjects.net

SSH Pilot is a free, opensource SSH manager and dual-pane SFTP client, with many handy features to make your SSH life easier and more fun :)

I've realesed a new version which adds a Split View feature for displaying multiple terminals inside a single tab.

Check it out here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot

Download: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.mfat.sshpilot

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/35929431

New to Nostr on Android. Do you use Amber, Citrine and Morganite for Nostr?

I just downloaded Amethyst to start using Nostr. While looking into setup guides and recommendations, I also came across Amber, Citrine, and Morganite.

Right now I’m wondering how people actually use these together in practice.

Do most of you just use Amethyst by itself and call it a day, or is it worth setting up the “full gem stack”?

Curious what setup you’re using and whether you think the extra apps are worth it.

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In this video, I provide an update in the ongoing dispute between Bambu Lab and the AGPL regarding their 3D printing software. Bambu Lab's slicing software, ...

There's a popular-ish open source game I remember playing a few years ago, Warsow, and when I checked on it now, it's been forked and while the fork is genuinely better and funner to play in so many ways, it expects to be launched through Steam. I wanted to tinker with maps and stuff and started researching, and while I did find what I was looking for somewhat in older Warsow-related threads, when I went to the official warfork-qfusion github repo looking for specific documentation for the new fork, I was greeted with a link to their Discord "if you have any questions". (edit: to be clear, I mean that there was nothing under the "wiki" tab of their official github except for a brief note directing people to their Discord. No real public-facing official documentation that I could find other than that pointer to discord.)

Yet this game brands itself FOSS, and it is technically released under a FOSS license and their github shows that they are actively developing it in cooperation with a community - just not a community you can be in without accepting certain walled gardens. It honestly sucks to see. I wanna access threads discussing this software, but I won't be able to unless I go through an ID verification process and trust a silicon valley company to both secure my data and not use it in some nefarious way. And to even run the game, I had to accept Steam, which I honestly didn't have to do in order to run Warsow back in the day, and I enjoyed that - what was wrong with just shipping a binary and letting people launch it how they like, with optional integrations? What's wrong with having an open forum for tech questions? Why wall the garden that you're making supposedly open products in?

In short, what do you call projects like this - the increasingly common projects that, while technically FOSS, put all their documentation and discussion on discord, and seem to expect their users to swallow unsavory default options or even use proprietary middle-ware or launchers? Proprietary FOSS?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46445602

Is this still going to happen? What can we do?

I want to learn about Open Source Hardware and Robotics for science laboratories by which I mean not only hardware with open source software for operating it but hardware that has well documented parts for repair -- open operating software and open blueprints, I guess.

I work in academic science, and I'd really like to automate my lab someday, but it seems most equipment gets dropped by the companies that make it after some time or the company goes out of business. While there are a few companies that have started making accessible APIs, most try to suck you into their ecosystem. Oh, and don't get me started on the absolutely insane service contracts -- 50k/yr for an evenings work and some parts. Maybe companies can pay for all that and an upgrade every five-to-ten years, but it's not sustainable for academic labs. My boss repairs his own aktas, but I want to automate way more.

Ideally, I was hoping there might be some other scientists out there who can point me to things that might already have been done. I'd rather not re-invent the wheel unless I absolutely have to.

Alternatively, any advice on where to start learning this? It seems like many universities have "maker spaces" to work on proto-typing, and I think MIT's "how to make almost anything" is on their open course catalog. Is there anything more lab focused?

Not the dev. I just wanted to share an app I like. I use it to quickly clean tracking and referral junk from links before sharing, but the app can be set as your default browser if you want to sanitize links before you open them.

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan and I am proud to announce that all my FOSS video games can now run on any hardware with a monitor, although some assembly (not the language) is required to get it running on some hardware. Examples of some hardware in this situation is the pdp-1, SNES, microcontrollers, you name it. To be clear the compatibility versions of my games unless the game has no compatibility version, then main version would be compatibility version and does not use raylib 6 and text based, is the best versions of the games to run on that hardware because it uses raylib 6 and to get it running, you will most likely need to make changes the renderer to get it running on that hardware. Text based games should be able to run on that hardware with only control changes if necessary. Link to site: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to find some software for team collaboration on a private internal network. Think instant messenger but with file transfers, groups chats, and other team-based features. It would also be useful if all users could access the logs from the host.

Does anyone know of any reputable FOSS software that does this?

Thanks, Hirundinidae

EDIT: Lots of great responses thanks everyone!

Im looking for a simple foss mood tracker app for android. I looked around but non of the once I found on f-droid or otherwise, had one feature that I would really like.

I would like to be asked 3 times a day (morning, noon, evening) for my mood with push reminders and answer on a simple scale. Maybe 1-5 or 3 arrows (up, middle, down).

Does any one have a suggestion?

https://flareapp.moe/

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.dimension.flare

Is it legit? Does it work? How does it compare to other clients?

Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.